Aine Nakamura & Zosha Warpeha: a multidisciplinary performance

Aine Nakamura & Zosha Warpeha: a multidisciplinary performance

Third Door welcomes Aine Nakamura & Zosha Warpeha for a program of solo and duo improvisations, a first-time meeting between two artists whose practices are shaped by listening: to bodies, to spaces, to lineage; to what asks to be heard. Together, they offer an evening of immersive sound, movement, and embodied presence.  

Aine Nakamura is a performer, artist, poet and improviser. She focuses on the sensibility and sensitivity in listening to hidden stories and performs using sung and spoken voice and movement across multiple cultural/transcultural sites, that are her interventions in traditional power structures. She seeks the potentialities of an injured voice and on the listening and sensing bodies. She writes words, some of which become scores, and considers shapes as if her throat itself is a membrane and body or inner is a changing shape or phenomenon among worldly phenomena, in relations. Through her practice, while aiming to be a vessel, she understands about herself and pursues meanings of lines, seeing, and connecting. In her recent transdisciplinary works and research, she explores the presence of wounds and repair, and the concepts of fragile kindness and love to access pathways to vulnerability. Engaging with sites, memory, and transborder soul work, she works in sounding/voicing, movement, storytelling/poetry, object-making/installation, and site-specific composition/improvisation. 

Zosha Warpeha is a composer-performer working in a meditative space at the intersection of contemporary improvisation and folk traditions. With bowed strings and voice, her durational performances are explorations of time, tonality, and resonant space. She performs primarily on Hardanger d’amore, a sympathetic-stringed relative of the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. While her work is informed by the cyclical forms and physical momentum of Nordic folk music, her solo practice "subverts tradition not as a political act, but as a point of departure" (Peter Margasak). She was a 2025 artist-in-residence at ISSUE Project Room and her work has also been supported by the US-Norway Fulbright Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. “Improvisation that, in spite of its experimental edge, feels decidedly human” (The Wire).